Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to the city and county of Dublin.

 

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Dublin Family Histories

 

• Arabin of Corkagh
• Arthure of Seafield House, near Donabate
• Barnewall of Turvey
• Barry of Glenageary
• Beere of Skinner Row & Camden Street
• Bobbett of Hansfield – some notes
• Boland of the Bolands Mill and Bolands Bakery
• Chenevix of Corkagh & Dublin
• Colleys of Castle Carbery, Mount Temple & Corkagh
• Finlay of Corkagh House, Clondalkin
• FitzGerald of Carton House – Earls of Kildare, Dukes of Leinster
• Gardiner, Viscounts Mountjoy
• Grueber of Corkagh & Ormond Quay
• Halpin Family: Lighthouse Builders, Port Engineers, Pioneers
• Jameson of Montrose
• Kane / O’Cahan of Mantua, Swords
• Martin of Dublin & Virginia
• Maxwell of Corduff, Lusk
• McClelland of Glasnevin & Henry Street
• Moffatt of Blackrock
• Molesworth of Swords
• Morgan of Castle Street
• Nash of Finnstown, Lucan
• Radley of College Green
• Weir of Grafton Street
• Yelvertons, Viscounts Avonmore

 

Dublin Pubs

 

• Dublin’s Literary Pubs
• The Long Hall – 51 George’s Street, Dublin 2
• The Stag’s Head – Dame Court, Dublin City

 

Dublin Streets & Districts

 

• Dublin City – Streetwise
• Dublin Docklands – An Urban Voyage (Contents)
• When College Green was green
• Dublin 8 – A Neighbourhood to Appreciate
• Bath Avenue, Irishtown
• Henrietta Street – Tenement Life
• Grafton Street, Dublin City
• Grand Canal Docks
• Grand Canal Street
• Molesworth Street
• Poolbeg Street
• Tara Street
• Temple Bar – The Heart of Dublin City
• Townsend Street
• Wicklow Street

 

Dublin Squares

 

• Grand Canal Square
• Merrion Square
• Mountjoy Square

 

Dublin Quays

 

• Charlotte Quay
• George’s Quay
• Grand Canal Quay
• Hanover Quay

 

Dublin Bridges

• The Bridges of Dublin City
• Broombridge (Royal Canal)
• London Bridge (Dodder)
• Maquay Bridge (Grand Canal)
• Ringsend Bridge (Dodder)
• Rosie Hackett Bridge (Liffey)
• Samuel Beckett Bridge (Liffey)
• Seán MacMahon Bridge (Grand Canal)

Dublin Buildings & Structures

 

• • Auburn House, Malahide
  • Beacon Court, Sandyford
  • Boland’s Mills & Bakery
  • Bord Gáis Energy Theatre
  • Chesterfield House, Booterstown
  • CHQ Building: An Epic Past
  • Corkagh, Clondalkin
  • The Diving Bell on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay
  • Elysium, Leeson Street
  • Finnstown House, Lucan
  • Freemason’s Hall
  • Grove Paddock, Blackrock – Renaissance in Co. Dublin
  • The GPO
  • Lucan Spa
  • Mahaffy House, Dublin City – Restored Home of Oscar Wilde’s Tutor
  • Martha Schwarz Cracked Glass
  • Ringsend Gasholder
  • St Columba’s College, Whitechurch
  • Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital
  • South Wall
  • The Pigeonhouse: Hotel, Barracks, Power Station
  • Tudor Hall, Monkstown

 

 

Vanished Dublin Structures

 

• Gasometer, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay
• Gough Statue, Phoenix Park
• Hibernian Marine School, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay
• Virginia House (Wiggins Teape), East Wall

Dublin Hotels

 

• Finnstown House, Lucan
• Marker Hotel, Grand Canal Square
• Morgan Hotel, Temple Bar
• Pigeonhouse Hotel, Poolbeg (closed)
• Radley’s Hotel, College Green (closed)

Notes on Dublin Towns, Suburbs and Villages

 

• Adamstown
• Artane
• Ashtown
• Balbriggan
• Balgaddy
• Ballyowen
• Bayside
• Blanchardstown 
• Booterstown
• Broombridge
• Cabra
• Castleknock
• Cherry Orchard
• Clonburris
• Clongriffin
• Clondalkin
• Clonsilla
• Clontarf Road
• Connolly Station & Custom House area
• Coolock
• Coolmine
• Dalkey
• Docklands
• Donabate (with Turvey and Portrane)
• Drumcondra
• Dún Laoghaire (formerly Kingstown)
• Finnstown
• Fonthill
• Grand Canal Docks
• Glasthule
• Glenageary
• Grange
• Greystones
• Hansfield
• Harmonstown
• Hazelhatch
• Howth
• Howth Junction & Donaghmede
• Heuston Station
• Irishtown
• Kilbarrack
• Killester
• Killiney
• Kilmainham
• Kishoge
• Lansdowne Road
• Malahide
• Monkstown
• Pearse Station
• Phibblestown
• Poolbeg Peninsula
• Portmarnock
• Raheny
• Ringsend
• Salthill
• Sandycove
• Seapoint
• Skerries
• Stapolin
• Sutton
• Sydney Parade

 

Dublin Books

 

• Corkagh House 
• Dublin Docklands – An Urban Voyage (Contents)
• The Maxol Story
• Weir & Sons 150 – A Celebration

 

 

Vanishing Ireland (Dublin)

 

• Connie Brennan (born 1929) – Child minder & hotel cleaner – Inchicore
• Kitty Crowe (1926-2009) – Singer & Community Champion – Ringsend, Dublin 4
• Jenny Cullen (1925-2010) – Factory worker, Inchicore
• Alex Findlater (1937-2019) – Dublin Merchant
• Dorothea Findlater (1909-2017) – Ireland’s Oldest Woman in 2017
• June Ann Fitzpatrick-Byrne – Ireland’s Tennis Star of the 1940 and 1950s
• Sonny Kinsella (1928-2019) – Memories of Townsend Street & the Dublin Docklands
• Bart Nolan (1929-2018) – Memories of Townsend Street & the Dublin Docklands
• Mary Parkinson (1932-2016), Garment manufacturer & record salesman, Inchicore
• Joe Rock (1927-2016): Half-Time Oranges
• Rosemary Smith (1937-2023) – Rally Driver
• Maureen Tierney (1920-2017) – Laundry & factory worker, Inchicore

 

 

Dublin People

 

• The Blessed Margaret Ball (1515–1584)
• George Downing (1623-1684) – The Irishman who built 10 Downing Street
• Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) – A Tale of Two Women
• Thomas Burgh (1670-1730) – Engineer Extraordinaire
• Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
• The Hickey Brothers – Renaissance Men of Capel Street
• Nicholas Grueber & Corkagh’s Gunpowder Mill
• Théophilus Desbrisay (1662-1767) & the Corkagh Deed of 1743
• General Henry de Grangues of Corkagh House
• Dr Bartholomew Mosse – Founder of the Rotunda Hospital
• The Pidgeons of The Pigeonhouse
• Peg Plunkett (Mrs. Leeson) (C. 1740-1797)
• William Caldbeck (1733-1803) & the Moyle Park Gunpowder Mills
• Lord Norbury (1745-1831) – The Hanging Judge
• Captain William Bligh (1754-1817) & the Dublin Bay survey of 1801
• Arthur Guinness (1759-1803) – The Brewing Maestro
• Samuel Clayton: Forger, Freemason, Freeman
• Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847) – The Liberator
• Lady Morgan (c. 1781-1859)
• Dr. Barry O’Meara (1786-1836) – Napoleon’s Doctor
• The Venerable Mary Aikenhead (1787-1858)
• Dan Donnelly (1788-1820), Prize Fighter
• The Rev. John Schultz, The Tack ‘Em Clergyman
• John Henry Foley, RA (1818-1874)
• James Whiteside (1804-1876) – Lord Chief Justice of Ireland
• Lady Jane Wilde, aka Speranza (1821-1896)
• Dr George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911), Father of the Electron
• Bindon Blood Stoney (1828–1909), Father of Irish Concrete
• Doctor George Sigerson (1836-1925)
• Sir William Arrol (1839-1913), or, How A Boiled Sheep’s Head Shaped The Industrial Age
• Bram Stoker (1847-1912), Ireland – Birthplace of Vampires
• George Moore (1852-1933) – The Man Behind Alfred Nobbs
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) – A Study in Green
• Maud Gonne (1866-1953) – ‘The Adulterous Muse’
• John Mary Pius Boland (1870-1958), Olympic Gold Tennis Champion
• Eva O’Flaherty (1874-1963)
• Father Edwin Fitzgibbon (1874–1938)
• Eddie Colley (1875-1912) and His Lousy Titanic Birthday
• Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915)
• Violet Gibson (1876-1956) – The Irish Aristocrat Who Shot Mussolini
• Captain Jack White (1879-1945) & the Irish Citizen Army
• Tom Kettle (1880-1916) – Mad Guns and Invisible Wands
• Winnie Letts (1882-1972) – A Poet of the Great War & the Cuala Press
• Don Patricio O’Connell (1887-1959) – Barça’s Saviour
• Rosie Hackett (1893-1976) – For Whom the Dublin Bridge is Named
• Kitty Kiernan (1893-1945) – Michael Collins’ Fiancée
• George ‘McIrish’ McElroy (1893-1918), Air Ace
• Emmet Dalton (1898-1978) — Mad Guns and Invisible Wands
• Brendan Bracken (1901-1958) – Churchill’s Faithful Chela
• The Voice of Constance Markievicz
• Sam Maguire & Liam MacCarthy – For Whom the Cups are Named
• Samuel Beckett’s Roots – Builders of Dublin
• Lucia Joyce (1907-1982) – Portrait of a Troubled Daughter
• Herman Görtz and Plan Kathleen
• Aideen O’Connor (1913-1950) – The Golden Girl of the Abbey Theatre
• Kevin McClory (1924-2006) – James Bond’s Mentor
• Patricia Horne (1927-2012)
• Desiree Shortt
• Lainey Keogh – Empress of Knitwear
• Stephen Roche – Tour de France Champion, 1987
• Alan Lewis – Cricketer & Rugby Union Referee
  
• Steve Collins – World Champion Boxer

 

Dublin Podcasts

 

• Corkagh – The Life and Times of a South Dublin Demesne
• Behind the Guinness Gates
• Waterways Through Time – The Voyage from St James’s Gate
• Vanishing Ireland: Betty Ashe, community activist, Ringsend
• Vanishing Ireland: Rosemary Smith (1937-2023), rally driver
• Vanishing Ireland: Jack Roche, Liberties greengrocer

 

Dublin Events

 

• Ringsend Cars
• The Legend of the Ouzel Galley
• The Premiere of Handel’s Messiah – Dublin, 1742
• The Opening of the Grand Canal Docks, 1796
• East Wall and the Schoolboy Strike of 1911
• Asgard & the Howth Gun-Run, 1914
• Death on Bachelor’s Walk, 1914
• O’Donovan Rossa’s Funeral, 1915
• The Dublin Pals in Gallipoli
• The Irish Munitionettes in World War One
• Guy Pinfield & the Easter Rising
• The Abbey Rebels of 1916
• Gas Attack: Royal Dublin Fusiliers in Hulluch, 1916
• Easter Dawn – The 1916 Rising (Contents)
• The Flag of the Easter Rising
• The Boland’s Garrison Of Easter 1916
• Sinking of the RMS Leinster, 1918
• The Sack of Balbriggan, 1920
• A Fatal Friendship – Kevin O’Higgins & Rory O’Connor
• The Tex Austin Rodeo at Wembley and Croke Park, 1924
• “Ireland Goes For Broke: The Gamble of the Tailteann Games” – A Guest Post by Brian Hopkins
• The Irish Sweep
• Operation Shamrock
• Walt Disney’s Leprechaun Hunt

 

Articles relating to Dublin

 

• An tSlí Mhór (The Great Way) and the Esker Riada
• Notes on the N81
• The Vikings on Irish Waterways
• The Grand Canal
• The Royal Canal – Rise, Fall, Rebirth
• The Annesley Abduction: The Story that inspired ‘Kidnapped’
• How Ireland’s MPs voted in the Act of Union in 1799 & 1800
• George IV’s Royal Visit to Ireland, 1821
• Aeneas Coffey, the Coffey Still and the Docks Distillery, 1830
• ‘Foley’s Asia’ by Ronan Sheehan (1999, The Lilliput Press)
• Corrupt Banking in Victorian Ireland
• The Scandinavian Colony on Charlotte Quay – The Glass Bottle Factory Lock Out, 1886
• The Golden Age of Irish Tennis
• The Royal Dublin Fusiliers at Seddelbahr, 1915
• Death at Hulluch, 1916 – Killer Gas in the Great War
• Meghan’s Roots: The Duchess of Sussex’s Ancestral Links to Ireland, Malta & New Brunswick
• My Father & Other Animals – A tribute to the Veterinary Paddock at the Dublin Horse Show
• The Lost Letters of William Orpen
• Who Killed Honor Bright?
• Dr Seuss and the Budds of Dartry
• The Coal Yards of Dublin City
• Elephants at Dublin Zoo
• A Historical Odyssey through Dublin’s Literary Pubs
• 32 Top Visitor Sites in Dublin
• Cyril Fry’s Magnificent Model Railway Collection
• Radley’s Hotel on College Green
• Lola Montez and the King of Bavaria
• Slats – Was the MGM Lion from Dublin?
• ‘The Pillar – The Life and Afterlife of the Nelson Pillar’ by Donal Fallon (2014)
• The Secrets of Dublin’s Underground
• Ireland via the Olympics to the Tailteann Games – A Nation Once Again, by Brian Hopkins
• A Tale of Two Houses, Blackrock & Sandymount
• Dublin Women: Six of the Best – August 2015
• Tom Cruise’s Irish Ancestry
• The Artane Band & Lily Allen
• Hells Bells! Christchurch Cathedral!
• Strange Tales from Croke Park

 

General Articles that refer to Dublin

 

• The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
• The Vikings on Irish Waterways
• The Normans on the Irish Waterways
• Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar – The Irish Experience
• The Cistercian Order in Ireland
• Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
• Waterways Through Time